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Baleària will order to the LaNaval yard the construction of two fed ferries to natural gas
The investment will pile to about 350 million euros
September 3, 2015
The company of Baleària navigation and the ship yard Construcciones Navales of the Norte (LaNaval) an understanding protocol has undersigned that is previewed will lead within two months in the signature of a contract for the construction of two fed ferries to which liquified natural gas, that they will be the first ships ro-pax in Spain to use this fuel. .
The Spanish company has emphasized that, with a length of 225 meters and a width of 30,4 meters, the two new units will be between the ferries of the greater greatest ability in Europe and constructed from a Spanish ship yard. Moreover the engines of the new ferries could be fed also with diesel oil.
"The agreement - it has emphasized the managing director of LaNaval, José Ignacio Irasuegui - constitutes a milestone for LaNaval because it acquires a new customer of the caliper of Baleària, with which we hope of being able to establish a relationship in the long term, and because it represents the consolidation of the strategy in the market of the ships fleeting and, in general terms, of the planning and the construction of ships to elevated technological content".
"The investments in the construction of new ships - it has emphasized the president of Baleària, Adolfo Utor - are the way in order to grow and to become more competitive". Utor has evidenced that the new ferries "will be technologically advanced and innovative ships not only for the propulsion, but also for the adoption of systems that will afford us of being echo-more efficient so as than to offer to better services and comfort to the customers".
The construction of the first ship will begin in the course of the next year and the ferry will become operating within the first trimester of 2018.
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The company of Baleària navigation and the ship yard Construcciones Navales of the Norte (LaNaval) an understanding protocol has undersigned that is previewed will lead within two months in the signature of a contract for the construction of two fed ferries to which liquified natural gas, that they will be the first ships ro-pax in Spain to use this fuel. .
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
